Mont v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 3, 2019 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 3, 2019
- Docket
- No. 17-8995
- Argued
- February 26, 2019
- Term
- October Term 2018
- Vote
- 5–4
- Majority author
- Justice Thomas
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas (wrote), Justice Ginsburg, Justice Alito, Justice Kavanaugh
- Dissenting
- Justice Breyer, Justice Sotomayor (wrote), Justice Kagan, Justice Gorsuch
Oral argument transcript and advocates
Opinion excerpt
Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires the Court to decide whether a convicted criminal's period of supervised release is tolled-in effect, paused-during his pretrial detention for a new criminal offense. Specifically, the question is whether that pretrial detention qualifies as "imprison[ment] in connection with a conviction for a Federal, State, or local crime." 18 U.S.C. § 3624(e). Given the text and statutory context of § 3624(e), we conclude that if the court's later imposed sentence credits the period of pretrial detention as time served for the new offense, then the pretrial detention also tolls the supervised-release period. I A In 2004, petitioner Jason Mont began distributing cocaine and crack cocaine in northern Ohio. After substantial drug sales to a confidential informant and a search of his home that uncovered handguns and $ 2,700 in cash, a federal grand jury indicted Mont for multiple drug and firearm offenses. He later pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and to possessing a firearm and ammunition after having been convicted of a felony. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (2000 ed.) ; 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846 (2000 ed.). The District Court sentenced Mont to 120 months' imprisonment, later reduced to 84 months, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Mont was released from federal prison…
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